Hello, Tokiponans! I am extremely new to Toki Pona, as you can probably tell by my use (or misuse) of its grammar. Please, correct me where I falter. I want to improve as best I can. Also, where should I go to practice speaking Toki Pona? Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks!

I think I'm the only one that thinks so, but reduplicated adjectives require a pi and the repeated word modifies the previous adjective. We don't have any evidence about what reduplication means, but pi phrases are well understood. Reduplication is not productive in toki pona for any systematic purpose. So:

Also, kin the word that gives a phrase an emphatic sense and is always correct-- no controversy.

ken la sina lukin e ni tan pali mi (anu pakala mi) pi lawa nimi ona.

"maybe you see this from my work or mistakes of it's head name."I'm not following you here, even after reading the English.

lon sitelen mi is better than lon toki mi, since words are physically on a page, but speech kind of an abstract place.

Currently active places for using tp in a sort of conversational way:2nd lifeirq (especially if jan Kute is there)twitter -check out the account of @janMatotokilili - requires manual approval of accounts now, but 100% of the users there are there to use toki pona.

janMato wrote:I think I'm the only one that thinks so, but reduplicated adjectives require a pi and the repeated word modifies the previous adjective. We don't have any evidence about what reduplication means, but pi phrases are well understood. Reduplication is not productive in toki pona for any systematic purpose. So:

Also, kin the word that gives a phrase an emphatic sense and is always correct-- no controversy.

Thanks kin for the explanation. Your examples make sense to me now. I will try to keep this in mind when I make emphatic statements in the future. Thank you.

janMato wrote:

ken la sina lukin e ni tan pali mi (anu pakala mi) pi lawa nimi ona.

"maybe you see this from my work or mistakes of it's head name."I'm not following you here, even after reading the English.

Ironically enough, I was trying to say that bit about "...as you can probably tell by my use (or misuse) of its grammar." I had difficulties putting that into Toki Pona terms, as evidenced by my serious pakala here.

janMato wrote:Currently active places for using tp in a sort of conversational way:2nd lifeirq (especially if jan Kute is there)twitter -check out the account of @janMatotokilili - requires manual approval of accounts now, but 100% of the users there are there to use toki pona.

janKipo wrote:'lawa nimi' is not too bad for grammar: "rules for word". We need some established tp terminology for linguistics since so much of our talk is about tp and it would be nice to do it in tp.

Mistakenly thinking lawa nimi was widespread, I had gotten the term from here. Now I guess this blog is unofficial, given both of you were surprised at this newly constructed compound noun.